Les Chateau des Reynats is located in the village of Chancelade. From the outside the chateau looks like a fairy-tale castle. Inside the lobby is rather dark and the stairway is somewhat awkward to navigate around to get to the lounge area and the dining room. The dining room is truly magnificent with grand chandeliers and round tables covered nicely with linen tablecloths. There are 16 rooms in the Chateau itself so other accomodations are offered in the annex. Guess where we stayed? Our room in the annex was OK. The room had rose colored walls with toile drapes and bedspread. Our bed was a double so there was not a lot of room.
In the bathroom the towels were very thin and we were given one small inexpensive piece of soap for two of us. There were no facial tissues available to us, however, they did offer shampoo and gels and everything was clean. The room had no airconditioning and if we opened the window insects came in, especially if it was open in the evening with a light on! The walls in the hallway were covered with photos of events that occurred long ago in this area of France. This was very interesting, but also quite utilitarian looking. The lights continually went off in the hall and entryway if there was no one using the area so often we were groping around searching for the lightswitch so that we could see our way to our room.
I thought the dining room was very elegant and befitting a chateau. The dining room opened to the terrace that was by the pool. It was a nice arrangement and looked quite lovely. The pool itself could have used a cleaning. I did not use the pool while we were there because it was quite cool that evening. The trees outside the chateau and the annex were huge Chestnut trees and made for a nice promenade.
I was there on a tour and was able to go into some of the rooms in the Chateau itself. They were not impressive at all! In fact, they were rather strange to me. They had odd colors on the walls and rather stark decorations that smacked of "modern".
I had read the comments from others about the "annex" so I was not disappointed or upset that we were not staying in the chateau itself. This is truly a lovely area of France and is full of places to stay.

We stayed at the Chateau des Reynats for two nights during a tour of France recently. When you drive in to the grounds its very impressive with plenty of parking and attractive surroundings. However, we were staying in the Orangerie (the chateau's annex building within the grounds) and the double room we were given was a little small, stuffy (no air-con) and had a very poor view of the neighbouring building.

The staff were a little on the snotty side and we had problems on our second night when they were holding a wedding party in the chateau and had erected a make-shift dancefloor within the annex building. We were kept awake untill well after 2am with singing, shouting and loud banging French music, not to mention the dj schreeching in efforts to whip up the crowd every two minutes! This was infuriating and after our complaints the following morning, the fee for our second nights stay was waved.

All in all, we would probably not return to Chateau des Reynats. But if we did i would definately make sure we were booked to stay in the actual Chateau rooms and not the Orangerie this time and that there were no weddings booked during our stay!

Also worth a mention, the pool was refreshing as it was very hot whilst we were there, however, it could have done with a clean.... it was absolutely full of dead flies and wasps!